Best Places For Biz (and eats) in Seattle
March 7, 2057

Alright chummers and morsels, I've been getting requests for good places in SEA-town to close deals and eat meals. I'll give you some info on the obvious ones (for the NS3s and out-of-owners), then I'll open up the forums so you can throw your own recommendations out. Ghost knows, we all could all use some good safe places to relax (or encourage a Johnson to pay without a doublecross).

* Club Penumbra is a long-established, famous nightclub in Seattle. It is located in Central Downtown, right next to the Renraku Arcology, on the northwestern border of the International District. The retro interior style of the club with its moon surface floor and trideo laser effects may not meet everyone's tastes, but it attracts a large mixed crowd of regulars, including shadowrunners, who seem to like it just the way it is, so it still remains to be one of the major hotspots in the city. The music is pretty loud and includes popular dance music and hard rock. The club is still famous for a live gigs of the Concrete Dreams years ago; they held their first concert there.
* Matchsticks is a nightclub and bar in the older sense; more of a club, less of a dancehall. Near the Space Needle, the interior resembles a jazz-joint from the early 1930s. Music is all authentic live jazz, and drinks are good but expensive. Private rooms with jammers are available (for a price). Your classier runners and more upscale Johnsons frequent the place. As do the occasional wannabes named "renegade" trying to look flash in an ill-fitting Ares-Wal Mart suit.
* Underworld 93 is where the action is for live entertainment. Deceptively located on the outskirts of the Puyallup Barrens, this converted warehouse is now a first rate concert hall that plays the hotest acts in NorAm. Great place to meet, drink, conduct a little biz. The sheer energy of the place can be amazing.
* Bellevue Pour House is another pseudo-dive bar that tends to be a major shadowrunner hangout. Good place for decent beer and rubbing elbows with colleagues and contacts.
* Tacoma Purple Haze is a real first class restaurant serving Texan, Aztlan and Puelblo cuisine. Runners with money tend to frequent the Haze, and you can make some good connections there.
* Dante's Inferno is in a class by itself. Nine huge glass dance floors pulsate with energy while four ramps spiral downward toward the bottom level, an area of private rooms called "hell." This place is the place to see and be seen in Seattle. Private rooms in Hell are highly secured with jammers and white noise generators; perfect for that super-secret meeting. The rooms run about 1000Y for a few hours, though, so bring your big credstick.

Corp. Spotlight: Fuchi

March 6, 2057

All this craziness with the elections (vote early! vote often!) seems to have caused a media circus distracting enough for tensions at Fuchi to ramp back into the high strats. Seems that Nakatomis are buying up small companies in the Seattle area, backing them with support from San Fransisco, and using them to frak with Villiers' NorAm division. All this means much work for us shadowfolks, running for Fuchi, against Fuchi. For those of you not familiar with the pain and profit involved with internal corporateruns, I decided to put some background on the whole twisted Fuchi family (or families), so you can at least know who's fraking who, and whom you need to watch your back around. Scan the file, watch your hoop, and keep a daddy on the roof; Fuchi runs are business AND personal.

Rating	AAA
World Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
President/CEO	Richard Villiers
Chairman of the Board	NA
Corporate Status	Private
Major Shareholders	before the megacorp was officially dissolved: Richard Villiers: 35% Shikei Nakatomi: 32% Korin Yamana: 30% Samantha Villiers: 2%

The beginnings of Fuchi Industrial Electronics were in the merger between Dekita Industries (owned by Nakatomi) and Yamana Electronics (founded by Korin Yamana). Yamana Electronics acted as a white knight on the behalf of Dekita Industries to prevent a hostile takeover by the Pacific Rim Bank in 2011, shortly after the Awakening. When Nakatomi tried to buy back the Dekita stock from Yamana, Yamana refused and suggested an alliance for mutual protection and benefit. Despite the conflict and friction between the two companies and their owners, the alliance proved to be fruitful as both companies played to each others' strengths and weaknesses. In 2017, the company formally merged into Fuchi Industrial Electronics, while spreading out into North America, Hawai'i, Australia, and Hong Kong.

In the late 2020s, Fuchi's focus turned toward cyberterminals. Before the Crash Virus hit, Fuchi developed, with aid from Chobetsu Japanese Intelligence, one of the first privately designed cyberterminals. After the Crash Virus and the demonstration of the power of cyberterminals by Echo Mirage, Fuchi executives were determined to perfect and exploit this cutting edge technology.

Along comes Richard Villiers, a corporate raider who had recently acquired desk-sized cyberterminal technology from Ken Roper and Michael Eld, two of the deckers from Echo Mirage. When Roper and Eld both died under mysterious circumstances in 2034 shortly after the development of the Portal, Villiers became the sole owner of Matrix Systems. All of the associated assets and research behind the Portal disappeared, apparently in the hands of Richard Villiers.

A month after the closure of Matrix Systems, Villiers approached Fuchi Industrial Electronics, then the world's foremost computer research corporation. He offered the Portal technology for one third ownership of Fuchi, and control of all North and South American Fuchi operations. He also offered his considerable corporate assets along with the deal. Korin Yamana was all for the deal, but Kiyoshi Nakatomi vetoed the arrangement, remembering the Dekita buyout and betrayal. Three days after the proposition, Nakatomi was murdered by his limo driver, and Shikei Nakatomi inherited the Nakatomi portion of Fuchi. Villiers repeated his offer, and it was accepted, giving each family, Yamana, Nakatomi, and Villiers, roughly one-third control of Fuchi.

In 2036, Fuchi releases its first cyberterminal, the CDT-1000. It was widely successful, and vaulted Fuchi to dominance of the computer market and toward Megacorporation status. In 2038, Richard Villiers purchased a majority of JRJ International stock and thus purchased a seat in the Corporate Court, making Fuchi a Triple-A Megacorporation.

For twenty years, Fuchi maintained dominance as one of the largest and most powerful megacorporations of the world, through a careful and uneasy balance of power between the rival families.

Stay safe out there. This seems to have been building for a bit.